From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7323 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2002 18:42:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7316 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2002 18:42:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cdt.org) (206.112.85.61) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Aug 2002 18:42:58 -0000 Received: from www.dberlin.org (pool-138-88-98-72.res.east.verizon.net [138.88.98.72]) by mail.cdt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6800A490059; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:22:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: by www.dberlin.org (Postfix, from userid 503) id 3D78C1869F79; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:42:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by www.dberlin.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E548182815F; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:42:00 -0000 From: Daniel Berlin Reply-To: dberlin@dberlin.org To: David Carlton Cc: Petr Sorfa , gdb Subject: Re: adding namespace support to GDB In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, USER_AGENT_PINE version=2.40 X-Spam-Level: X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00295.txt.bz2 On 23 Aug 2002, David Carlton wrote: > In article <3D6677D3.6E84743C@caldera.com>, Petr Sorfa > writes: > > > Well to help things along I will be submitting a DWARF patch that > > will supported imported declarations which are essential for FORTRAN > > modules and C++ namespaces. > > Great, I look forward to reading it. > > > This is essential for the "using" commands in either language (of > > course the compiler needs to generate the correct DWARF > > ;o)). > > Yes, well, there is always that. This is easy, i've had patches to do it forever, that are already approved. I'm just waiting for gdb to get around to namespace support before committing them, because it turns out we don't want to add a -gdwarf-3 switch. > Certainly it seems like a solution > for C++ will initially have to get recreate namespace info from > DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name, and there's no way that we'll be able to > allow users to use symbol names as if all the appropriate using > directives were in effect, since that information simply isn't in the > debug information that GCC is currently producing. (Though that's not > the end of the world: we should be able to do name lookup using C++'s > name resolution rules based on the enclosing function and its > arguments, presumably.) > > David Carlton > carlton@math.stanford.edu > >